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'nother night owl here, too. I routinely start my Christmas baking at around 10 pm at night and finish up around 2 am. I've been known to be vacuuming and mopping my house at midnight, and once, I even started spring cleaning around 1 AM. I'm just starting to really sleep well around 5 AM, which is why I despise when I…
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@NovusDies I got a 6 mile walk in today in the sunshine - does that count as light therapy? lol I know this has affected my NEAT as well as my activity levels, which in turn powers that stupid scale turn around. And you are very right - you have a great talent for counseling and I appreciate your efforts with me,…
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my first thought was "sacreligious! chili powder on sweet potato" Then I thought - wait; sweet and spicy. You know, that might actually work!
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@conniewilkins56 well, I have had 2 sessions now with a counselor - the company will pay for 3 more, so once we get to the end of November, we'll have to see beyond that. The only meds I really tried was wellbutrin but that was for trying to jumpstart weight loss and hoping the antidepressant would be a nice side benefit.…
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@rieraclaelin That's fantastic news! A good reason to cry happy tears :) (and the pants things is wonderful too lol)
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And just think of the fun buying new clothes will be! :) Congratulations!
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My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017) My goal: 180 lbs Milestone: 215 lbs Current Weight: 225.8 lbs Loss this Week: +2.7 lbs Total Loss: -149.2 lbs What's Working/What Needs Work: *sigh* And we continue the trend upwards. I'm now up 8 lbs from my all time low of 217.9 lbs 2 months ago. The slowing that was going on all…
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@rieraclaelin homemade pumpkin pie is actually not that bad calorie-wise, especially if you substitute a unsweetened nutmilk for the canned milk (I like using cashew milk) and use a sugar alternative. Keep the whipped cream under control. You can also cut calories down even more if you make the pumpkin pie crustless…
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@eliezalot My office is that way too. We have one guy in the office who is hot all the time - something medical - but he keeps his windows open year round - even in single digit weather. And he is constantly bumping the thermostat down. I have a thick sweater I keep at my desk that I'll wear in July when its 95 degrees…
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Getting up this morning to see that the scale had dropped back down to 226.9 lbs from the 231.5 yesterday is a relief. I"m still not thrilled that my trend weight in HappyScale has increased from 220 lbs at the beginning of October to 229 lbs today. So much for trying to slide into maintenance and hold it there; I'll be…
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@lauriekallis Welcome! I love the long post, too - I'm not the only one who writes paragraphs! lol I'm struggling to learn myself how to give myself permission to be human and to slow things down. Right now I'm sitting at a 1650 calorie limit daily which is supposed to be 1 lb/wk, but setting it to 1 lb/wk is still kicking…
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its been really windy here in the mid-Atlantic today and its cold - the local high today is 40F - and that's not including the wind chill! Brrrr! I have noticed lately that I am especially being affected by the cold - I feel like I'm cold all the time anymore. My house does tend to hold the cooler temps during the mornings…
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gewel is right; you stopped and that's excellent progress! ANd just think: would you have been able to do that a year ago? You've come a long way! this is a lot of why I stuck with my PCP when I moved, even though she's now a 4 hour drive away from me - she's an excellent cheerleader when it comes to my weight loss…
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I'm back but don't have a whole lot of time to respond much right now. The camping trip went well; I'm actually a little hoarse today from all the talking we did! The cold didn't bother me; I just put on warm fleece underneath the jeans and a t-shirt under a sweatshirt and jacket and I was fine. I didn't need the propane…
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can't argue there; it would be finding someone who would be honest and not want to just make me feel better that would be the trick these days. Yeah - if I could just make a living being a housewife! lol I don't know; technical writing maybe, but my biggest hurdle is that the economy is very depressed here and I don't have…
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oh I definitely have been limiting myself on calorie dense food stuff - very rarely do I allow chips, candy, crackers, or anything small and dense into my house. The bread pudding had been made for Sunday afternoon dinner and wouldn't have been a problem if we had actually eaten Sunday afternoon dinner at my house - I…
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*sigh* the problem is I don't see where I have any true job skills or any real marketable skills. Trying to list my strengths gets me nowhere because I don't see where I have any that are actually useful in the job marketplace. Listing "somehow managed to graduate engineering school without actually having a clue how to be…
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I bought a bag of sugar free chocolate chips, thinking I'd use them sparingly. *sigh* nope; after using 2 servings in pancakes that morning, and putting about 4 servings in that bread pudding, I wiped the rest out. The other half of that bread pudding is still here; definitely need to get it out of the house!
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bad day. Very bad day. I actually ate double of what my maintenance should be, thanks to having a bread pudding in the fridge and the power going out this morning. It was my day to cook but the power outage was an extended one so we went out to Bob Evans. I tried to behave myself, but still had 2 dinner rolls and was just…
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today was better, even if I was slow getting started. I headed to town to get some more propane for the camping trip since our local Walmart hasn't had any all summer and the local Lowe's was out, but the hardware store the town over had some. I didn't get left until noon, then stopped at the grocery store for some items…
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Depression has been bad this week - the worst I've felt in a very long time, and a huge part of this mood comes back to my job that I still can't figure out what to do about. It was a beautiful week, but I only got in 2 walks and they didn't help my mood much at all even with the abundant sunshine we had this week (so my…
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congratulations! And I hope that even if it does bounce back up, that it doesn't stay for long!
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I hadn't heard that one. Is that why I wake up with my oldest cat up in my face most mornings? He's smelling the fat I'm exhaling on my breath? lol That's a great NSV!
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I don't like Halloween and don't celebrate it. I would give out candy for kids, though, when I lived in a place where kids would drop by,but I'm living in a rural location now so I don't get trick or treaters and therefore don't have to buy any candy or worry about leftovers! Thanksgiving is at my house and I've already…
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Yup; my body changes up on me a lot. When I was a teen/young adult, I skipped pretty badly, but things evened out in my 30's, and I've been regular for the last 10 years with the occasional blip. Course, it turns out I had been hypo thyroid for years, and its been so long now I can't really tell if the straightening out…
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walking backwards is a recipe for disaster lol There's been some change up to the diet because of the cold temps and next week will be a change due to the camping trip. it is easy to get into a rut; I realized the other day its had been months since I'd had meatloaf!
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My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017) My goal: 180 lbs Milestone: 215 lbs Current Weight: 223.1 lbs Loss this Week: +2.1 lbs Total Loss: -151.9 lbs What's Working/What Needs Work *sigh* Well, here's adding another 2 lbs to the gain last week with me being up now 5 lbs from the lowest recorded weight 2 weeks ago. I…
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@amart4224 *grumble* SOME people have all the luck.......lol Enjoy the uninterrupted rest now, hon, cause I can pretty much guarantee that eventually, you'll reach the age where that experience will go the way of the dodo *laughs* And the sad part is, I can't even blame having babies sitting on my bladder for 9 months,…
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*sigh* The scale has been very unforgiving in the last 2 weeks, right when I really, really didn't need the stress from that, either. After bottoming out 2 weeks ago at 217.9 lbs, the stupid scale has steadily been increasing ever since. Why is it that when I get close to a goal, that's when everything seems to fall apart?…
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I love playing with other races, and in my world, there's definitely genuine magic and a system of powers though I don't have court wizards and that sort. I do have a clerical system. In my world, its set up where the Christian God created this other world (like Lewis did with Narnia) and created these powerful beings and…
